Valladolid, Mar 17 (EFE).- Castilla y León remains at the head of the management of the dependency law in the autonomous region after thirteen years, with a score of 8.5 out of ten in 2022, one tenth more than in 2021, according to the XXIII Opinion of the State Observatory of the Dependency of the State Association of Directors and Managers of Social Services published this Friday.
Improve your grade of 2021
In this report, nine other communities, in addition to Castilla y León, improve their grade compared to 2021, with a distance of 6.1 points between the Castilian-Leonese Community and Murcia, which closes the regional classification with 2.4. The national average was 5.07 in 2022 (5.12 in 2021).
After Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha is on the regional podium, with 7.9, and Andalucía, with 7.6.
The ten keys that make this position possible are the following, according to the report:
1.- It is the Community with the most people attended, with an individualized care plan: 25.79 percent of the potentially dependent population.
2.- Its coverage rate is 47.91 individualized care plans per thousand inhabitants, 20 points higher than the national average established at 27.72 per thousand. The average time to have a plan is 125 days, the lowest of the autonomies compared to the 344 on average and the 977 of the Canary Islands at the other extreme.
Grab full attention
3.- Full care situation: in 2022 it cared for 5,461 new dependents, up to 114,380, which practically corresponds to the 5,482 people with rights who accessed the system again. Its recognized dependents without benefit are 1.8 percent, two tenths less than in 2021. The national average is 11.9. Catalonia, at the other extreme, is at 27.08.
4.- A singularity that it shares with Extremadura: 31.1 percent of its service portfolio, compared to 10.8 of the rest of the communities, is for Service-Linked Economic Benefit (PEVS), it is an economic aid destined to the payment of residential care services, day care or home help for dependent people.
This means that subtypes of services as expensive as Residential Care (18,602), Day Centers (1,433) or Home Help (11,166) are offered at an average cost of 337.73 euros, with undoubted economic savings for the Community.
The highest rate of job creation
5.- It has the highest employment generation rate per million euros invested of all the CCAAs: 65.6 jobs • The execution of the measures contained in the Shock Plan have made it possible to reach those 5,461 new dependents cared for and create 2,259 new jobs, there are already 36,731.
6.- Expenditure per potentially dependent person, which rises to 1,332 euros, compared to the average for all the Autonomous Communities located at an expense of 1,194 euros per potentially dependent person.
7.- The System generates 248.2 million in Castilla y León from Social Security contributions, personal income tax from workers or VAT collection for services provided, with a total public spending recovery rate of 44 .36% of the investment (41.43% in the CCAA as a whole).
8.- Its ratio of benefits per person beneficiary is 1.35, within the leading communities and above the average, in sixth place.
9.- The direct costs of the system: 701.4 million, of which the Community contributed 46 percent, the General Administration 34 percent and the user 20 percent. The national average is 52.6% for the Community, 26.9% for the general administration and 20.5% for the user. The Community received in 2021 and 2022 extraordinary financing of 165.3 million from the Shock Plan for improvement and sustainability.
10.- In the leading communities in proximity benefits for economic benefits, with 1.64, slightly above the average of 1.49, and sixth place.
Regarding the areas for improvement that emerge from the report, the following stand out:
1,365 deaths on the waiting list
1.- Between December 2021 and November 2022, 1,365 people died on the waiting list, without being treated, in Castilla y León, 7.7 percent of the 17,324 who died treated with a benefit or pending the resolution of the benefit .
2.- The excess of deceased people cared for has been high in residences and homes; Compared to 2021, it increases in homes and, even more, in residences. The mortality rate of people cared for in residences and homes is above what was expected for 2022; Regarding 2021, it is maintained in homes and residences.
3.- Between the months of January and December in Castilla y León the services of: home help, residential care and promotion of autonomy and prevention of dependency have not grown; the greatest growth was experienced by the telecare service (+4,667) and the economic provision of care in the family environment (+1,056).
4.- More than two years since the pandemic, Castilla y León has still not recovered the previous level of care it had in the services of: home help (-3,043), promotion of autonomy and prevention of dependency (-965) , residential care (-456) and day centers (-415) by day.
5.- Indicators in which the Community is not in the leading positions: the average intensity of hours of home help and the weighting of amounts of economic benefits by degrees of dependency. EFE